Windows 10 graphics: Intel warns; patch 19 severely flawed drivers

[Mike]

Intel is warning Windows 10 users that old graphics drivers are riddled with security flaws that need to be updated with new updates that the company has released over the past year.

The chip maker has disclosed what it says are high-severity flaws afflicting the graphics driver for Windows, which "may allow escalation of privileges, denial of service or information disclosure".

"Intel is releasing Intel Graphics Driver for Windows updates to mitigate these potential vulnerabilities," Intel said.

The update is available from Intel's page for downloading graphics drivers.

Intel employees found eight of the 19 security flaws fixed in the updated Windows drivers. One was reported by a security researcher who goes by the name @j00sean on Twitter, while the remainder were reported by an external Intel partner.

To avoid now publicly disclosed Intel-driver security risks, Windows 10 users should be seeking Intel Graphics Driver for Windows 10.18.x.5059 (aka 15.33.x.5059), 10.18.x.5057 (aka 15.36.x.5057), 20.19.x.5063 (aka 15.40.x.5063) 21.20.x.5064 (aka 15.45.x.5064) and 24.20.100.6373.

Windows 10 graphics: Intel warns, patch 19 severe driver flaws now | ZDNet

 

[tangent]

From the article:

fortunately they all require an attacker to have local access to a machine to exploit them.

 

[bp2008]

Oh, good. It would suck if anyone could just slap together a malicious webgl element in a web advertisement and steal your password for that website.

 

[Walrus]

On my i5-6600 with HD530 graphics, any of the latest drivers completely break quick sync hardware acceleration.

 

[bp2008]

As @tangent pointed out in not so many words, this is nothing for Blue Iris users to worry about.

 

[Walrus]

What if you don't trust your wife and kids?

Yeah, I know. I was just adding to it, pointing out that if you rush to update, it can break things.